Guide for use in sewing



Mar, 20, 1923; 41,448,827

. M. E. BURNEVTT GUIDE FOR "USE IN SEWING Filed Aug. 10, 1921 3' w aawlzeza Patented Mar. 2@, i923.

iuurau srarss rarsur MARY E. BURNETT, F MCLEAN, VIRGINIA.

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Application filed August 10, 1821. Serial No. wild l5.

To all 1071 omit may concern- Be it known that I, MARY E. BURNETT, a citizen oi? the United States and a resident. oi McLe-am in the county of Fairfax and iiltate of Virginia, have invented certain new 30 sewing and has reference more particularly.

to gages and guides and has for an object to provide an extremely simple and eiiicient instrument by which the width of a hem may be readily gaged and indicated.

Another object is to provide an instrument by which lines o1 ornamental stitching may be accurately applied to fabrics.

Another object is to provide means by which hems of any desired width may be indicated and followed with ease, the indicator being movable and frictionally held on a scale measure or bar so as to indicate in inches the width of the hem'or the like.

With these and other objects in view my invention consists in certain novel features of construction arrangement and combination of parts as will be hereinafter fully described and pointed out in the claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming a part hereof, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the invention in use.

Figure 2 is a plan view of same.

Figure 3' is an inverted plan view of the device.

Figure 4 is a vertical section taken on line 4- of Figure 2.

Figure 5 is top plan view oi" a modified construction.

Figure 6 is a plan view of the blank from which the slidable m mber shown in Figure 5 is made.

In carrying my invention into effect a scale bar 10 is used provided with the usual graduations and upon this is mounted slide 11 which in the form illustrated in Figures 1 consists oi a flattened tube having the slit 12 permitting it to be expanded so that it may he slid upon the scale bar -10; the slit also permits the tube which has a cer tain amount of resiliency and elasticity to contract when left on the bar and thus fric tionally holds the slide and the bar together.

The tubular slide 11 is somewhat e1ongated and adjacent one end on elastic thumb holder or stall 13 is ii idly secured either by soldering or ing. stall is in reality a splitring and approximates in shape a and is of slightly greats slide and the scale bar; it so that the thumb may be into the split ring which by its elas. holds the entire device on e thumb or caving slit 7.5,

ger. Projecting a ially 1n the edge of the smaller end of he split thumb 'ece s a pointer li which is shaped lil lar tooth and it is positio ed opposite the slit in the in projects transversely a suitable a V yond one edge of thetulr pointer 14 may be made i. tees split ring or rigidly secure suitable way.

. In Figures 5 and 6 l have illus device made from a single blank bor involved in assembling;- the various length so that when the tongue 17 is rolled into a ring like form its junction with the plate is obliquely across the plate as shown at 20 and the ring part assumes the coneshape which is characteristic o the thumb stall 13 Fig. 1. Adjacent the end of the plate and at one edge I make the slits 21 and 22, which meet at the edge of the plate. leav ing a triangular tongue 23..

Within the body portion of the plate I make the longitudinal slits 2 and 25, and the transverse or cross slit 26 joininr the ends of slits 24: and 2-5 at a right ans 3.

The slit 24: is of greater length then 25 so that an oblique line is left this is rolled the tongue 28 completing the truncated cone shaped split ring: orthuinb stall.

The plate 16 is folded over on the dotted lines 29 and forms a flattened tubular slide corresponding to the member 11 of Figures 1-4. But by cutting and rolling out the tongues 17 and 28 the graduations on the scale bar are visible through the slide.

To use the device for making a hem as indicated in Figure 1 the thumb, usually of the left hand, as indicated by the letter T is slipped into the split ring 13, the hem folded over to the desired Width, and the slide moved to the desired Width so that the pointer is at, and indicates the line for the stitching, and the heniniing then carried'out vide an extremely simple, cheap and etli-- cient instrument that Will form an important. addition to the art of sewing.

I claim- 1. In a device as herein characterized a graduate scale, a movable finger stall longitudinallyslidable on the upper face thereof, anda pointer projecting from aid finger stall. p

2. In a device of the character described,

a graduated scale measure, a finger stall disposed transversely of the scale measure, said finger stall movable longitudinally of the scale measure on its upper tic-nally held thereon.

8. in a device of the character described, an expansible tubular finger stall, a scale bar, a pointer extending longitudinally from the finger stall, said finger stall triotionally held to the scale bar and slidable longitudinally above said scale bar.'

a. In a device OflQ character described a flat scale measure, a flat tubular slide mounted thereon, a tubular linger stall rigidly mounted on said slide, and disposed transversely of the slit e, and a pointer extending longitudinally of the tubular finger stall.

5. In a device of the character described, a scale bar, a tubular slide mounted thereon, said slide being provided with bent tongues formed into a resilient finger stall, and a pointer projecting laterally from the slide.

6. A blank for the slide as set forth in claim 5 and comprising a fiat plate having oppositely extending tongues cut from the plate and bent on convergent transverse lines to form a truncated cone shaped open ring, a triangular tongue out into one edge of said plate, and bent under flanges along the opposite longitudinal sides of the plate to form the same into a tubular slide adapti'ace and friced to be frictionally held on the scale bar.

MARY n. BURNETT. 

